I just read Dan Schmidt's blog entry and would have to agree that red pines are the way to go in the upper Midwest and northeast. Depends on your soil, but if you have sandy areas, red pines and jack pines grow really fast and provide thick cover. If you have moist soil, white spruce and norway spruce are good. Norways grow faster than any other spruce, I believe. Be wary of firs. Deer will mow them down, too. Especially frazer firs. They eat them like candy in the winter time. Big Dave

I would plant a combination of pines. If you plant enough white pines ( which grow fairly fast) you should have some make it. If not you have way too many deer or not near enough browse/food plots. You might have to fence around your new trees to keep the deer from browseing them.

When I lived North, Jack and Red Pines were the least desired. Plant alot so some make it. Down south now, this is another story. Only Pine deer down here will just nip and not destroy, are Red Cedars, native to this area. All others conpletely destroyed! We have plenty of food. Deer just love pine buds.

As stated earlier in the post it depends on your area, the people to talk to about this is your local forestry department, they will know more about what will work than anyone.
If it helps, I have seen no deer browse on the local loblolly pines planted on my property.

Red pines, work great. Have a field of them, next to the property that I hunt and the deer flock to them. They don't eat them, they don't do anything to them, except make them their home when the lead starts flying.